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CAESAR is Northwestern’s system of record for student data. Students, faculty, advisers, parents, guardians, and staff use CAESAR to manage classes and grades, pay bills, view financial aid, process admissions, and maintain demographic data.
OneDrive offers secure, cloud-based storage that lets you seamlessly collaborate and access files from anywhere in the world, at any time.
NUworkspace offers users a virtual Windows desktop service that provides access to a suite of many software applications to faculty, students, and staff, including access to software packages that may not be readily available on their desktop/laptop computers.
Zoom is available to anyone with a valid Northwestern NetID, and its use is intended for the purpose of conducting University-related activities. To get an account and begin using it immediately, visit the Zoom login page, sign in with your NetID and password, and authenticate using Duo MFA. An account is provisioned automatically upon first login.
NetID services take information from the HR or student system and create unified Northwestern credentials (NetIDs) that are then connected with information about each individual. NetIDs are then used as the primary way for people to interact with IT services. Other types of NetIDs can be created as well for specific people, organizations, or IT system purposes.
Use a telephone to connect to the published telephone numbers for faculty/staff and University departments.
The University Libraries use MeeScan devices as self-service check-out stations for library materials
Northwestern has agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft Azure, to provide discounted cloud hosting options for Northwestern faculty and staff.
Northwestern provides virtual data center service via NUCloud, the University’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environment via a fee-based model that requires a two-year commitment. This offering allows administrators to manage virtual servers at the hypervisor level.
Directory services help provide people and systems with the ability to look up information about people based on various criteria from things as simple as their name to their Northwestern school affiliation, degree programs, etc. Directory Services include the Northwestern online directory, the ADS Active Directory forest, the LDAP directory, and various others.
The Northwestern Public Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows users with Northwestern NetIDs to access University network resources as if they were directly connected to the Northwestern network.Virtual Private Network (VPN) establishes a "secure tunnel" for your computer on the Northwestern network. It provides strong encryption, enables authenticated access to the Northwestern network from external and untrusted environments, and proxies your network traffic so it appears to originate from within the Northwestern network.
The Research Secure Data Enclave provides a secure cloud environment within Google Cloud (GC) for researchers who work with Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and other data that requires compliance with NIST SP 800-171.
The Database Administration service provides end-to-end solutions for provisioning, managing, optimizing, and supporting secure, efficient, and scalable databases environments.
iBuyNU is a web-based ordering tool integrated into NUFinancials. It provides departments and schools with a streamlined, cost effective way to order from University Preferred Vendors.
Urgent assistance or emergency AV support in supported rooms is available by calling 847-467-7666 (7-ROOM from the classroom telephone).
Easily collect data through surveys, quizzes, and polls using Forms. The application automatically generates graphs using responses and can be exported to Excel for more in-depth analysis.
Yammer is an internal social networking tool for faculty, staff, and students which offers a host of social networking features to make it easy to communicate and collaborate from anywhere with just about anyone at the University.
Power BI is a cloud-based suite of business analytics tools that enables anyone to connect to, visualize, and analyze data with greater speed, efficiency, and understanding.
Microsoft Bookings is an online scheduling tool and is part of the Microsoft 365 family of products. Bookings can be integrated with Outlook calendar and Microsoft 365 email to send booking invitations and reminders.
Allows meeting organizers to host audio-only (dial-in) Teams meetings.
Based on the requested location, Northwestern IT staff will help identify available TV service providers. We can then ensure that any infrastructure installation can be done safely and effectively, after which we will help establish service with the appropriate provider.
Northwestern provides three wireless networks to access the Internet. Each network is unique to University affiliation and device type.
Northwestern’s IT Service Management platforms include Northwestern’s primary ticketing and ITSM system. Teams can use this platform to manage service request and incident intake, triage, and management; plan and and approve changes to IT systems and infrastructure; and receive and respond to customer feedback.
Canvas offerings support the management and sharing of class materials (e.g., videos, documents, spreadsheets, etc.) and support student assessments, along with facilitating learning through collaboration.